AfroLatinidad and the importance of identifying as an Afrodescendant is discussed. Music by Peter Barr Like the series: / negrodocu Series website: negrodocumentary.com
Thank you so much for this! A little feedback: The music in the background is a little too much in the foreground. I'd recommend turning it down so that the speakers' messages get through clearly.
Untrue. If you follow the social movements that have gone on in Latin America and even historically African identity has been strong in Latin America, you would also be aware that the first freetowns established by Africans in the Americas were in Mexico and in Colombia and then Haiti as the first free Black Republic. The AfroAmerican context is not the ONLY Afrodescendant context. There IS a problem with an identity in Latin America but that phenomena is def not UNIQUE to Latin America.
Africans from the Caribbean are probably among the first to self identify as Africans. African-Americans are definitely in the fore front of this type of self identifying. I'm glad that our family in Latin America is finally waking up and kicking up some dust. We support you family!!!!
The division is there and at it has been for centuries. People should not have to deny their ancestry and truth about their cultural origins due to fear of being even more looked down upon by those who support the status quo of Denying African heritage. If I am creating a movie about an Afro/Black-Cuban I cannot cast a white cuban in that role. So the person and his/her cultural/political reality exists as an Afro-Latino whether we call it Afro-Latino, Black-Latino, Dark Skinned, or nothing.
Another great clip, I was debating with someone on youtube who says, we should only consider ourselves African and not consider the European or Spanish heritage or even think about saying we have native or in my case Taino blood. So I loved to hear the Afro latino title because it is very true!!!
"African Americans are the only ones that have ever admitted to being of African descent without any real problems" That's not completely true. African-Americans still have a complicated relationship with Africa and Africans. Most black-Americans still know very little about Africans.
Afro yes but Latino no , although my parents are straight up from Colombia just don't feel the Latino and Hispanic terms. Those are reserved for the straight up Euro descendants. When those terms are mentioned I think of the Spanish colonizers and slave owners. I'm of Afro & Indigenous South American descent
This is absolutely positively false and misguided & this docu-series shows that. There are countless communities, regions and people Latin America, whose African roots are part of their cultural expressions & daily lives. Some of those cultural manifestations even identical to those found in regions in Africa. So no, these broad and sweeping notions, for both AfroLatinos AND AfroAmericans that you cited, are fraught w/ hateful ignorance. I suggest talking to more ppl or travel to Latin America.
people in this world and it's ok. I love all people but we are different in terms of phenotype. There's nothing wrong with the Afro Latino. But I do not, under any circumstances tolerate racism and discrimination. Know the differences.
Again you are missing the point. Imagine being on an Island or Latin America and always being called Negro. This is why Afro Cubans wanted to be called Afro Cubans instead of Negro. This is why the term was used to replace being called black because black had a negative meaning to start with since it was often used as an offense towards black people.
